CVE Catalog

CVE-2025-21851

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.17%

6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs

Summary

In the Linux kernel, arena_map_free causes a soft lockup on 64k page kernels (aarch64). The address returned by bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() may not be page-aligned, leading to an infinite loop in apply_to_pte_range.

Risk Assessment

The organization using BPF arenas on 64k page systems may experience system hangs and unresponsiveness, impacting availability.

Recommendation

Apply the Linux kernel patch that rounds up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE << 1 so that bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns a page-aligned address.

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Original NVD description (English source)

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: bpf: Fix softlockup in arena_map_free on 64k page kernel On an aarch64 kernel with CONFIG_PAGE_SIZE_64KB=y, arena_htab tests cause a segmentation fault and soft lockup. The same failure is not observed with 4k pages on aarch64. It turns out arena_map_free() is calling apply_to_existing_page_range() with the address returned by bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start(). If this address is not page-aligned the code ends up calling apply_to_pte_range() with that unaligned address causing soft lockup. Fix it by round up GUARD_SZ to PAGE_SIZE << 1 so that the division by 2 in bpf_arena_get_kern_vm_start() returns a page-aligned value.

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